Improvement in grain-binders



'3 Sheets-Sheet 2. J. GARRARD.

GRAIN-BINDER.

No, 178,757 Patented June13, 1876.

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3 Sheets-SheetB. J. 'GARRA'RD. GRAIN-BINDER. No. 178.757. Patented June 13, 18,76.

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BINDER COMPANY, (LIMITED,) on NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENTIN GRAIN-BINDERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No.

- April To all whom it mag concern:

Be it known that I, JEP'IHA GARRARD, of Cincinnati, in the county of Hamilton and State of Ohio, have invented certain Improvements in Grain-Binders, of which the following is a specification:

I replace the teeth of the ordinarys'weeprake by a plain smooth surface, of any suitable material, which, coming in contact with the butts of the cut grain, shall push them onto The pressure of the heads together, which increases by reason of the converging elevated sur faces and corner, tends to bring the butts together. This pressure of the gavel toward its head increases continuously, and the butts travel along the rake toward its outer end as far as said corner, forced thereto by the resistance of said corner. It is therefore necessary to the working of this combination that the distance of said corner or turning-point of the gavel on b of platform A from said outer elevated surface of said platform A shall be less than the length of the raking device.

The operation of the movable smooth-surfaced raking device is evident, and the function of the different angles of inclination of the raking device is to vary the point at which it shall leave the butts of the gavel in pushin g it onto the binder-platform. This movable raking device may be connected with, and controlled from, the socket-head of the sweep rake instead of the rake-head.

In the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 is a view, in vertical section, of bindingplatform through line a; a: of Fig. 2. Fig. 2 is a plan view of binding-platform. Fig. 3 is a perspective plan of binding-platform. Fig. 4 is a side elevation of the arm of the rake having the 178,757, dated June 13, 1876; application filed 7, 1876.

plain surface. Fig. 5 is a top view of same. Fig. 6 is a side elevation of the arm of the rake and the movable plain-surfaced raking device. Fig; 7 is a top view of same. Fig. 8 is an end view of same. Fig. 9 is an end view of same, showing the raking device inclined.

form, grain-platform, and raking devices com bined.

A is the binding-platform. a of same. I

a is an elevated surface on rear end of platform, of suitable height for retaining and di recting the grain onto the platform-floor. This may be slotted. b is the elevated part on the front side. right angles to floor of hinder-platform serves to guide and retain the grain as it comes on the binder platform; the top surface may serve to support the grain while it is bound, and the inner corner nearest the grain-platform of thereaper, to which the binder-platform is attached, serves as a turning-point for the grain as it is forced onto the binder-platform, (1 are the supporting-cleats, by which the binder-platform is connected to reaperplatform.

I I represent arms carried on a shaft, J, and employed to elevate the grain, with the wire .around it, to the binding-table b.

Bis the arm of the rake, having a plain surface.

G is the movable plain'surfaced raking device. e f g h are parts of same. f is a rack. g is a hinge and lever. h is a hinge. e is an ordinary sweep-rake head.

By adjusting the lever gin the rack f the sweep-blade C may be fixed in vertical position, or inclined in either direction, as desired.

Suitable devices forbindin g the grain I have b 0 d are parts for Letters Patent.

The cutting mechanism and the mechanism for operating the sweep-rake may be of any ordinary or suitable construction, and do not require specific description.

Any desirable number of rake-arms may constitute simple reel-arms or heaters.

Operation: The grain being out and laid on the raking-platform in customary manner, each ASSIGNOR- TO EXOELSlOR GRAIN- Fig. 10 is a perspective View of binding-plat- The elevated surface thereof at described and claimed in earlier applications sweep-blade B or O,as it comes around, takes the butts of the accumulated body of grain and carries it, without possibility of scattering, around the raker-plattbrm, and forces it, heads foremost, onto the binder-platform, by the converging walls of which it is pressed into a compact body. The arms I I are then thrown up, elevating the grain to the table I), with the wire around it. The wire is then drawn, out, and twisted, and the sheaf discharged by any suitable mechanism.

I am aware that toothless devices have long been used to sweep the grain laterally from the platform, on which it falls. My raking device differs from these, in that it carries the grain backward on the platform by contact with the butts of the straw.

Having thusdescribed my invention, the following is what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

1. The combination, with a quadrant grainplatf'orm, of a sweep-rake having on one or more of its arms plain-surfaced raking devices,

arranged to act directly onthe butts of the grain, substantiallyas set forth.

2. The combination of a quadrant graim platform, a binder-platform, and a sweep-rake,

having on one or more of itsarms plain-sun.

faced raking devices. arranged to act directly on the butts of the grain, and deliver itin even condition to the binder, substantially as set forth.

3. Aplain-surfaced rakingdevice,(Ladjust- J EPTHA GARRARD.

Witnesses:

WM. BURNET, J r., G. A. GURTISS. 

